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Based on the author’s decades of industrial experiencewith Boeing, this book helps students and practicing engineers togain a greater physical understanding of aerodynamics. Relying onclear physical arguments and examples, Mclean provides amuch-needed, fresh approach to this sometimes contentious subjectwithout shying away from addressing "real" aerodynamic situationsas opposed to the oversimplified ones frequently used formathematical convenience. Motivated by the belief that engineeringpractice is enhanced in the long run by a robust understanding ofthe basics as well as real cause-and-effect relationships that liebehind the theory, he provides intuitive physical interpretationsand explanations, debunking commonly-held misconceptions andmisinterpretations, and building upon the contrasts provided bywrong explanations to strengthen understanding of the rightones.

Provides a refreshing view of aerodynamics that is based on theauthor’s decades of industrial experience yet is alwaystied to basic fundamentals.

Offers new insights to some familiar topics, for example, whatthe Biot-Savart law really means and why it causes so muchconfusion, what “Reynolds number” and“incompressible flow” really mean, and a real physicalexplanation for how an airfoil produces lift.

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About the Author

Doug Mclean, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, USADoug McLean is a Boeing Technical Fellow in the Enabling Technology and Research unit within Aerodynamics Engineering at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.? He received a BA in physics from the University of California at Riverside in 1965 and a PhD in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University in 1970. He joined the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group in 1974 and has worked there ever since on a range of problems, both computational and experimental, in the areas of viscous flow, drag reduction, and aerodynamic design. Computer programs he developed for the calculation of three-dimensional boundary layers and swept shock/boundary-layer interactions were in use by wing-design groups at Boeing for many years.

Editorial Reviews

As someone who has been involved with aerodynamics formore years than I care to remember, I have rarely come across abook that is so readable and that provides so many (to me a least)genuinely new insights into the subject and its applications. This book should be high on the wish list of anypractising aerodynamicist, whether in industry oracademia.” (AeronauticalJournal, 1 August 2013)

“This is a sophisticated book for people immersed in thestudy of fluid dynamics and aerodynamics; it will give themin-depth knowledge of both the physical phenomena and themathematical equations that are used to describe and predict thesephenomena. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students in aerospaceengineering, researchers/faculty, and aircraft designprofessionals.” (Choice, 1 July 2013)

“Based on the author’s decades of industrialexperience with Boeing, this book helps students and practicingengineers to gain a greater physical understanding of aerodynamics.Relying on clear physical arguments and examples, Mcleanprovides amuch-needed, fresh approach to this sometimes contentious subjectwithout shying away from addressing "real" aerodynamic situationsas opposed to the oversimplified ones frequently used formathematical convenience.” (Expofairs.com, 11 March 2013)

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